Lapsed Dec 19, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 11, 2030
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Compleat LLC
Filed Oct 7, 2014 as application 14/508,339 · Granted Dec 19, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 141 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Dec 19, 2025
2010
2030
Clock starts
Jun 11, 2010
Jun 11, 2010
No longer in force
Dec 19, 2025
Dec 19, 2025
Granted
Dec 19, 2017
Dec 19, 2017
Term would have run to
Jun 11, 2030
Jun 11, 2030
base term
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
141
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,864,016.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
6
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jun 11, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 141 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jun 11, 2010, when application 12/813,840, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 7, 2014) | Jun 11, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +141 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 30, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,864,016) | capped to Jun 11, 2030 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 19, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 19, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,505,807 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 8,864,016 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 9,845,173 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 9,751,655 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 11,008,131 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2025 | May 2025 |
5 of 6 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 2016 Reel 39637, frame 333 | Herman, Peter | Compleat LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Note
The 141 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,864,016.
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.